Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of questions on one of my niche sites about, “How to get my book published.”

Ever since the economic slowdown, publishing houses are less likely to do book deals because no one is buying them! So self publishing is the only option.

Anyway, one cool service that a lot of smart authors are using right now is iUniverse. To put it simply, iUniverse is a publishing house that’ll self publish books and all sorts of other things.

The site allows you to upload your content whether it be audio, video, text, pictures, or whatever and will publish them in a format that people can buy. Depending on the package, you can get bar codes and everything else.

One thing I particularly like about iUniverse’s self publishing service is that shoppers can buy your book or photo album or DVD on your own little shopping cart that iUniverse sets up for you. You don’t need to know ANY coding whatsoever. After the purchase goes through, iUniverse takes care of all the shipping and everything!

Another cool thing is they even offer digital goods. The reason I say that the smart marketers are using it (or smart ‘make money online’ people) is because iUniverse is so easy to use. The first eBook that I actually published and made money with was published through iUniverse.com

So yeah, I actually did this research years ago… I was wondering how to get my book published and I stumbled on the site…

After I self published my first book, they sent it to Amazon and some of the other information product retailers and within just a couple months I was making about $1,500 a month from it. It was just a simple 56 page long eBook!

One word of caution though… Make sure to check the formatting of your book when you upload it. Sometimes it screws up margins and page spacing and stuff. They might have fixed it by now, but just watch out!

Just a thought: The service makes it dead simple to get started and if you have a blog or some sort of content that you’ve been writing, then it’s relatively easy to put it all together to upload it.

Get My Book Published…

Just put a Word document together and upload it to the free account. If you’re looking to actually get your stuff in Barnes and Noble or Amazon, you’ll have to buy an upgraded package that give you an ISBN number. It will send your actual physical book to Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Borders — the retailer bookstores which is awesome!

I don’t know of a better feeling then walking into Barnes & Noble and seeing a copy of your book sitting on the shelf. Whether people are buying it or not, it doesn’t matter. It would still be very cool to know that you were published and that people could buy your stuff in a book store.

So if you’ve ever wondered how to ‘get my book published‘ make sure you check out iUniverse.com. They’ve even got a free report that’ll get you started.